— Multi-tier Internet service clusters often contain complex calling dependencies among service components spreading across cluster nodes. Without proper handling, partial failur...
Lingkun Chu, Kai Shen, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Jingyu...
Abstract. Meta-S is a constraint solver cooperation system which allows the dynamic integration of arbitrary external (stand-alone) solvers and their combination with declarative l...
In this paper, we describe a new approach to the creation of virtual environments, which uses qualitative physics to implement object behaviour. We adopted Qualitative Process The...
Marc Cavazza, Simon Hartley, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Mika...
Multimedia applications are emerging in education, information dissemination, entertainment, as well as many other applications. The stringent requirements of such applications ma...
The mechanisms for personalisation used in web applications are currently the subject of much debate amongst researchers from many diverse subject areas. One of the most contempor...
Adam Moore, Elizabeth J. Brown, Helen Ashman, Tim ...